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Monday, November 21, 2005

Hey, co-writer of "Monster Squad" still delivers the goods!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ( I Concur with Kyle's review)





I just saw Shane Black's comeback movie after reading my colleague's review on it, that colleague being Kyle Burch ( A kid that goes to University of Portland and will later write more on my blog). I always loved Shane Black's movies from the start before "Lethal Weapon" and "The Long Kiss Goodnight", from where he co-wrote the screenplay to everybody's all time childhood movie "MONSTER SQUAD". Yeah! That movie never gets old.Now back to the review of this movie. I will start off I most critics that start the review of this movie. Apparently, the title is similar to Pauline Kael's book which is called "Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang". Most of the reviews that I read of this movie always started to quote from Pauline Kael that talked about this title, why she coosed it and she always gives a quote that sticks with you for a while and may sound catchy but you can't stop thinking of it. You give more thought and thus it develops more critical reviews of another movie. This is no exception, even though I should be original and not do the same as other critics, but I don't care. Pauline Kael is an influence on me and it is cliche for other aspiring critics to look up to her, but I gotta say the woman can write. So anyway back to the quote she stated that she saw this tagline on a Italian poster for a movie and this came to mind,"(Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang) are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies. This appeal is what attracts us, and ultimately what makes us despair when we begin to understand how seldom movies are more than this." I love quoting other, it actually tries to make me look smart! As for the quote, the same goes for Shane Black's directorial debut. He is basically a writer that fell in love with himself and the genre he helped established, the action buddy movie. It's not a bad thing, because the movie tends not just spoof itself but love what it has created. Black also tends to comment on certain cliche's he also had to do during his screenwriting heyday back in the late 80's and 90's. The concept is very reminiscent of a movie he wrote called the "Last Action Hero", it to had a sense of humor for itself too. Even though that movie was not as successful and wasn't executed properly, I think he takes this concept into consideration and him at the helm of this project he is successful. He has conceived an original idea and the movie always falls into screenwriting 101 and shows that Black is the auteaur. Not saying that it gets pretentious, I believe its far from it. It has a story, sex, guns, witty dialogue, intrigue, everything that the title offers and what Kael said. It offers much more, it his a movie that is fairly original and exceeds most of what Hollywood actioners has to offers. There is so much going that you probably gonna have to watch it more than once on cable or late night or take another chance and see it on the big screen. It deserves that value. Henri Langlois said to love a movie qualities and forget about the defects, its pointless. This movie may have its fallbacks, and could be a near miss for some people but don't expect much out of it. At least you enjoyed it, but for the rest that sees a highly original film that might make you see more things once you go back again and again, have to it!! This is Aliye Nyoka saying see you later Masturbator!!!!!!!!!!

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